Mail-bag.



N0 MODEL.

' PATENTED JULY 7, 1903. W. & W. M. ROHDE.

MAIL BAG. APPLICATION FILED APR. 3. 1901. RENEWED MAY 7. 190a.

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Patented July *7, 1903.

OFFICE.

ATENT WILLIAM-ROHDE AND WILLIAM MORITZ ROHDE, OF SANDUSKY, OHIO, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO OTTO II. HOLDERER, OF SANDUSKY,

OHIO.

MAIL-BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,081, dated July 7, 1903.

Application filed April 3,1901. Renewed May7, 1903. Serial No. 156,128. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WVILLIAM ROHDE and WILLIAM Monrrz RoHDE, citizens of the United States, residing at Sandusky, in the 7 county of Erie and State of Ohio, have 'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mail-Bags; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descripcombined with lightness,

strength, and durability, is an essential feature of this invention.

The hasp is located to form a guard and protector and receives the label, which is held in place by the staple-fastening. 1

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire aknowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to th e following description and drawings h ereto attached. L

WVhile the essential and characteristic features of the invention are necessarily susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- I Figure 1 is aperspective View of the upper portion of the mail-bag, the same being open. Fig. 2 is a front view, the dotted lines showing the corner portions folded. detail view showing the bag as it will appear when closed and looked.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters. 1 y

The bag is constructed of duck, canvas, or other kindred textile and is provided centrally of the front and back portions with reinforced openings -1- to receive the staple 2, attached to the upper butt portion of the bag. A series of handles 3 are located at regular intervals along the upper edge of the front and back portions of the bag and are so placed Fig. 3 is a that the handles attached to the front come opposite the handles attached to the back when the two parts are closed or brought together, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 2. These handles are formed, preferably, of strips of leather, although textile or flexible material of any kind may be utilized, leather being preferable, because of its toughness and density of texture. The strips from which the handles are formed are curved intermediate of their ends into an arch form, and the intermediate or curved portion is doubled upon itself and stitched, so as to provide a sub stantial and durable device. The end portions of the handles are extended and overlap the edge portion of the bag and are riveted or otherwise firmly and securely attached thereto. The edge of the bag is reinforced by a hem or tuck, and the handles 3 are secured to this reinforced part. In practice two sets of handles are provided upon opposite sides of a medial line,and when the corners of the bag are folded the inner handles overlap in line with the openings 1, and the outer handles overlap upon the staple 2, as clearly indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. After the corner portions of the bag are folded the resultant point formed is folded so as to "cause the staple 2 to pass through the openings 1 and the overlapped portions of the intermediate handles in line therewith. The arched portions of the strips forming the handles proper project beyond the upper edge of the bag, so as to be conveniently grasped for carrying the bag or to be engaged with the hooks, pegs, or the like from which the bag is suspended when being filled. Moreover, by having the handles project beyond the edge of the bag a saving in material results, and the edge of the bag does not overlap whenthe corners are folded as would be the case if openings were formed in the body of the bag to receive the staple-fastening 2.

The hasp 4 is attached to the bag by a swivel-eye fastening 5, and its front is recessed to receive a label 6, indicatingthe des tination or the place from which the bag was forwarded. The hasp is attached to the front side of the bag in line with the staple-fastening 2 and reinforced openings 1 and overlaps the point of the bag resulting from folding the corners and intermediate portion and confines said point close against the bag and prevents its engagement with other bags or any object with which it may be liable to come in contact.

The corners of the bag fold on the dotted lines a a a a and when folded form an intermediate pointed portion, which is folded 011 the dotted line Z1 Z7. As shown in Fig. 2, the,

secured.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- In a mail-bag, having centrally-disposed openings near the upper edge of its front and back portions, flexible handles attached to the edge portion of the front and back and projecting therefrom, the projecting portions adapted to overlap when the corner and intermediate portions of the back are folded, a staple-fastening attached to the front of the bag to receive the overlapped portions of the several handles and to pass through the aforementioned openings in the upper edge portions of the bag, and a hasp attached to the front of the bag in line with the staple and aforesaid openings and adapted. to extend over and confine the point of the bag,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatnres in presence of two witnesses.

1 WILLIAM ROHDE.

WILLIAM MORITZ ROIIDE. WVitnesses:

ALBERT M. REHBERG, OTTO H. HOLDEN. 

